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Reader Photo Challenge: Retirees
Enjoy these 11 photos of our readers’ beloved older horses!
This week we asked to see your older horses — those that have taught you the game and then maybe taught your children as well. Enjoy these 11 photos of our older horses!
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This is Hawk, a soon to be 30 year old. He taught KC to ride 22 years ago and is now teaching her students. Photo by KC Cordell.
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Fancy will be turning 25 in the next couple weeks and has been with Meaghan for 20 of those years! Photo by Meaghan Anne.
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Diamond Rio turned 32 this year and has been with the Bassett family for 28 years. Photo by Julie Bassett.
Keep an eye out for next week’s 24-hour photo challenge! We announce challenge subjects on Monday around the end of the day on both Instagram and Facebook.